The Georgia Aerial Photographs database is now available through the Digital Library of Georgia web site: (http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu). Those able to use the University System of Georgia GALILEO system can find it at: (Express Link: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=gaph). The Georgia Aerial Photographs database was produced with a grant form the University System of Georgia GALILEO program. All USDA and USGS aerial photograph indexes held in the University of Georgia Map Collection that covered Georgia were scanned for the program by East View Cartographic, Inc. of Minneapolis, MN. Some 50,000 individual aerial photographs, of the 220,000 Georgia air photos in the Map Collection, were scanned, some by East View and some by The Digital Library of Georgia. The indexes and air photos produced by the scanning program have been put up online in a database created by the Digital Library of Georgia and University of Georgia Libraries staff. The indexes and individual aerial photographs, produced from 1938 to the 1980s, are only part of the University of Georgia Libraries' Map Collection's holdings. Individual air photos are available online in the database for only the following 47 counties: Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb, Bleckley, Brantley, Brooks, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Cherokee, Clarke, Cobb, Coweta, Decatur, Dekalb, Dodge, Dougherty, Early, Effingham, Fayette, Floyd, Forsyth, Fulton, Greene, Gwinnett, Hall, Houston, Jackson, Laurens, Lowndes, Madison, Muscogee, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Richmond, Screven, Seminole, Tattnall and Tift. Holdings for the other counties will be added when additional support is received. Other parts of the collection will be added when possible. To see a listing of the aerial photographs held in the University of Georgia Map Collection see the Map Collection Web Site: (http://www.libs.uga.edu/maproom/ahtml/mchpmcf4.html). The Georgia Aerial Photographs database program would like to include all photography of Georgia, and will actively try to include photographs not held by the University of Georgia Map Collection. The current database will change as improvements are made, and users are incouraged to make recommendations for changes. One of the first changes will be to make indexes easier to read. The Georgia Aerial Photographs database is the first of several online databases the University of Georgia Map Collection is planning to develop over the next few years. The goal is to make available online to Georgia all the Georgia cartographic holdings of the Map Collection. Johnnie D. Sutherland Curator of Maps Map Collection University of Georgia Libraries Athens, GA 30602 [log in to unmask]